Animation Evaluation

Human:
For our first animation which was the human animation task, we had to make something happen that would never happen. For the one that I was in, we made chairs act as cars, and had somebody following another person with a gun. It was like a less expensive stop motion James Bond car chase seen. We were asked to complete this task as this was our first go at animation to understand how it worked and to get practice for our assessed work, the esting. Three things tat went well in our animation were that all the shots went together smoothly, when we were editing we found sound affects to go well and the fit really well, and also how we took the photos because of the awkward positions we had to be in sometimes because of the shots that we needed. What could've been improved is that we only had 6 seconds of footage, where we needed 10. This is because we didn't have too much time to do our piece as in the previous lesson, we tried to do a different idea to the one we created. This leads me onto another thing we could've improved which was that when we came up with our previous idea, we didn't realise how much time it would take and how realistic it would be. Because of this, we had to rush our other one so we could get it edited in time. So time management is definitely something to take forward into the esting. 

Inanimate object:
Our inanimate object animation was the second one we made. For this we used lego to create a scene where somebody was running away from a plane to then end up getting shot into pieces by the plane. We were asked to complete this task as it gave us another option that we could take into our esting, and also get practice for our esting. The things that went well for the animation is that I feel we made the lego come to life because of the movements we used. The second thing would be that the editing we did on it with the sound affects went quite well, and finally that we kept the continuity really well as we had to do it over two lessons. The first thing that could've been improved was our time management. Because we were focusing on trying to make it look quite realistic, we took quite a bit of time focusing on that. Although its good to focus on making it look good, we could've done a bit less and it would've still looked good, and would've done it within the time frame. I personally don't think anything else that could be improved from my point of view, apart from the timing. 

Lip-Synching:
For this task we had to take everyday things and make them talk. For our piece we used lego and bits of paper with drawings of mouths on them, mouthing the letters to sat "let go of me". For ours a bull frog jumped onto a guy and then he screamed "let go of me". We were asked to complete this task as it was another way that we could do our esting and also for more practice in stop motion animation. The first thing that went well was the shots as we had to hold the lego in awkward positions without having our hands in the shots. The second thins that went well was the sound affects were really well timed and fit the scene really well. Finally the last thing that went really well was our timing as we finished it within the time frame and did it really well. The first thing that could've been improved was the mouthing scene as for me I wasn't too sure wether it was realistic enough. The second thing I think could've been improved was maybe adding a few more shots from different angles as the shots are mostly all from the same angle, whereas on the other two pieces, there was a bigger variety in shot types.

Conclusion:
For the assessed esting, I am thinking about doing the human animated one and using clothes to create the E4 logo. I want to use this style as I have an idea where I will use the object like a bowling ball which will turn into a snake type thing, and then form onto the E4.